And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’
But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”
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